The Provisions for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Addis Ababa: The Urban Planning Perspective

Abstract

Various researchers have identified urban planners, urban planning policy and the other elements of the planning policy context as posing serious problems for urban agriculture. “Urbsan Planning reform” has been suggested as a solution to common problems faced by urban farmers. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the role of urban agriculture for sustainable landscapes in the urban planning perspectives. Therefore, this study might help to reduce the misconceptions about the role of urban planners in envisioning and effecting community changes by describing what urban planning is and what urban planners do upon urban agriculture in order to make urban Agriculture as integral components of the land use planning in the City Structural Plan. The analysis of the study was based on both the primary data (by using various tools including interviews, questionnaire Survey, observation, and Focus group discussion) and secondary documents that were collected from the concerned agencies, and various institutes of urban administrations at sub-city and city level with respect to city structural plan in all case study sub-cities as well as Digital maps through GIS and Remote sensing. Furthermore, the analysis result also confirmed that less attention has been given to urban agriculture as an integral part of land use planning. Thus, this research concludes that there is laxity in promoting and enhancing urban agriculture for sustainable landscapes including balcony agriculture in different residential buildings like condominiums and apartments from an urban planning perspective. Finally, this research recommends “Start Planning and Design with Urban Agriculture as an integral component of City Plan.